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Introduce yourself with five albums that have shaped you: Pink Floyd – The Wall (1979) Metallica – Master of Puppets (1986) Iron Maiden – Powerslave (1984) Rhapsody of Fire – Symphony of Enchanted Lands (1998) Angra – Angels Cry (1993) I...
In the early 2000s, there was a chatbot on AIM called SmarterChild. Thirty million people talked to it. That's a genuine cultural moment I apparently missed entirely.Now two filmmakers, Lindsey Sitz and Zan Gillies, are making a...
A new interactive map predicts the density and extent of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal networks, which exist in symbiosis with land plants. The estimate is based on soil samples and data from previous studies, fed through… More
Today I will share how to install and setup a GitLab server on FreeBSD. Most people just use Microslopft GitHub these days but this approach has one big drawback – its cloud only solution. When it comes to on premise solutions there are...
I canceled the OpenBSD server. Moved to free Cloudflare. The infrastructure doesn't matter. I get an extra pack of cigarettes now. I used a feed reader for almost a month. Too long. I killed it. Reading is just consuming other people's...
Hilma af Klint, Eros, Group II, No. 2, 1907.I’m a passionate romantic, Tammy says so. I don’t like the way the consultants at the clinics upsell you in Seoul, though everything is very efficient and meticulous. A great novel could be...
Last night, I scrolled on my YouTube app to find something to watch (I have been working on spending more time at long-form media instead of quick dopamine hits/doomscrolling) when I found that TV Tokyo has been uploading full episodes...
I wrote in , , , and about TypeScript and private functions. Eleven years later, I still believe that relaxing encapsulation to ease testability has the best return on investment (ROI). In this blog post I will argue that separating...
Floating UI is one of those problems that looks small until you build it properly. You click a button. A menu appears below it. That sounds like the whole component. Then the page scrolls. The trigger moves. The menu clips against the...
As a creative practice, I write 10-idea lists every day. Here are 7 interesting ideas I found recently. I’m writing them as I go, so I’m missing sources. #1. Have a list of alternative activities to scrolling. Instead of grabbing your...
For a while I've been planning to put together a separate machine for local LLM training. Until now, I've been using my desktop PC, perry. I have an RTX 3090 installed, and can get useful training runs done (most recently, a...
Shooting custom black and white and color profiles with the OM 3. These images are SOCC. Enjoy. More of my posts about photography: I'm still in search of the perfect camera If money was no object I'd buy this camera OM System OM 3 - why...
The first recording today is Pokemon: Battle Frontier – Odd Pokemon Out. The gang are on Crysanthemum Island, and let their Pokemon out to have fun. Donphan gets pursued by some Shyhorn. Nurse Joy arrives, and uses her Meganium to calm...
I was walking back from coffee in northern Sydney earlier this week—like a gentleman—when I saw Australia’s most famous locomotive steam by. AAAAAH! I got my phone out and hurriedly filmed it as it went past. Now I just need to see the...